L’Amour Fou

L’Amour Fou is a multimedia adaptation of Jacques Rivette’s 1969 film—a fevered, intimate exploration of love, madness, creation, and collapse. Reimagined inside the concentrated architecture of The Brick Theater, the piece revisits Rivette’s dissection of an artist–actor couple whose relationship unravels as they attempt to rehearse a play. What emerges is a portrait of emotional and artistic disintegration, where the rehearsal room becomes a battleground and the act of filming becomes a way of holding on to what is slipping away.

My adaptation embraced Rivette’s obsession with process, rupture, and the durational. The staging combined live performance with real-time video capture, dissolving the boundary between rehearsal and representation. Cameras moved through the space like unstable witnesses—sometimes intimate, sometimes intrusive—projecting their images onto surfaces that fractured, magnified, or distorted the emotional landscape.

The audience was invited into an environment where theatre, cinema, and lived experience collided: a raw, shifting space that exposed the fragility of creation and the violence of love. L’Amour Fou unfolded as both an homage to Rivette’s radical aesthetics and a contemporary investigation into the beautiful, destructive chaos that haunts every artistic partnership.